The Best Ad This Year - "It Be Weird"

Bill always gets on my case because I watch ads.  Well, I don't watch all the ads.  I watch the good ones.

Here is the Nissan Altima "Breakup" ad.  In thirty seconds, this ad conveys more of a story than most two hour movies do.  Check it out.  It has everything.

I LOVE THIS AD!

The greasy gas station attendant.  The goofy cute possum eyed customer (my type by the way).  The undercurrent homoerotic suggestion.  Even the pause by "possum" and the final look he gives "Eddie" before he gets into his car THAT HAS HIS WIFE IN IT (or girlfriend):

I LOVE THIS AD!

Whenever I hear this ad come one (I rarely sit in front of a TV and watch it, I'm usually working on my computer or reading a magazine or newspaper and using my TV as background wallpaper), I stop everything and watch it.  I NEVER TIRE OF IT.

I LOVE THIS AD!

I just finished watching Season 4 of "Madmen" last night.  I love this show.  Maybe it's because I'm a frustrated ad man myself.  In college I majored in advertising.  Why didn't I take up a career in advertising? Probably because I had a secure (at that time anyway) job at a bank.  Of course that "secure" job became a thing of history during the era of takeovers in the Eighties.

I think why I identify with Peggy Olsen in "Madmen" so much because I think THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME.  I know what ads work and what ones don't.

Actually, the ad I featured in this blog isn't a good ad because it was so good I couldn't remember what company the ad was advertising.  That was one thing I learned in advertising, don't make an ad that is so good that you don't know what is being advertised.  I had to go on the Internet to find out this was an ad for Nissan Altima and the fact that you don't have to spend as much time at a gas station and thus form a relationship with "Eddie."

By the way, "Eddie" is my type too.  I know, I know.

It be weird.